The most important skill in football

Whether on the ball, when to shoot, pass, dribble… etc, or off the ball, which is basically the same thing as off-the-ball movement and positioning.

Having a great football IQ and being a great decision maker makes every skill you have and everything you do much more effective.
Being a bad decision maker, on the other hand, just makes any skill you have, no matter how good at it you’re, of little to no use.

I always said that, out of their long lists of skills, Ronaldo’s main strength is his off-the-ball work (/decision making) and that Messi’s main strength is his (on-the-ball) decision making, and I think there is no better argument for this skill being the most important than it being the main strength of the two greatest players of the century.